Marley's Monsters vs Tekel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marley's Monsters
Discover a wide range of eco-friendly and reusable home goods, including customizable UNpaper® towels and unique baby products. Personalize items to match your style and nursery decor, making sustainable living fun and fashionable.
- Reusable UNpaper® towels
- Customizable products
- Unique baby goods
- Cloth wipes
- Nursing pads
- Cloth napkins
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Marley's Monsters is a one-stop shop for eco-friendly, reusable products and unique baby goods. We believe that living an eco-friendly lifestyle should be fun and unique to your style, offering you the option to customize your product with over 100 choices! Coordinate UNpaper® towels with the colors of your kitchen, Cloth Wipes and Nursing Pads to the style of your nursery, or let your kids choose Cloth Napkins for their school lunchbox. Download our app to start shopping!
Tekel
Discover and purchase local food, goods, and services from nearby makers and small businesses. Enjoy flexible fulfillment options like pickup, delivery, or shipping, and easily manage orders and communicate with sellers.
- Shop local food, goods, and services
- Pickup, delivery, or shipping options
- Order from multiple stores in one cart
- Book local services
- Message sellers directly
- Save favorites and track orders
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Tekel is a local marketplace for food, goods and services. Shop from makers, farms and small businesses near you, pay once in the app, and get your order the way that suits you. - Pickup, delivery or shipping: every store shows what it offers - Guilds: local stores that share one pickup spot. Order from all of them in one cart and collect it in one stop - Local services: book coaching, lessons and more by phone or video - Your card is held at checkout and only charged when your order is fulfilled - Message sellers about an item or a pickup time - Save your favourites and track every order SELLING ON TEKEL Run your store from your phone: list products with photos and options, offer pickup, delivery and shipping, buy shipping labels, take bookings for services, join a guild, and handle orders as they come in. Sellers pay a simple membership, and buyers pay a small service fee on each order. Tekel is built for real neighbourhoods: the people making food and goods where you live, and the people who want to buy from them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tekel at none against Marley's Monsters's shown. Tekel also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Marley's Monsters's advantage is ratings volume (184 vs 4). On price, rating, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Marley's Monsters against 5.0 for Tekel. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marley's Monsters has 184 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Marley's Monsters's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tekel's.
Marley's Monsters ships an update every 3 weeks, Tekel weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marley's Monsters | Tekel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (184 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 184 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MARLEYS MONSTERS LLC | Tekel Inc. |
Customer experience
Marley's Monsters
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In-app purchases
Marley's Monsters
No in-app purchases
Tekel
No in-app purchases
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